Chavez threatens to imprison foe
Times Wire Reports
President Hugo Chavez threatened to imprison the popular governor of Venezuela’s western Zulia state for allegedly plotting to kill him.
Chavez leveled the accusation against Manuel Rosales -- one of Venezuela’s four opposition governors -- just weeks before Nov. 23 gubernatorial and municipal elections.
Rosales, the two-time governor of Zulia, is running for mayor of Maracaibo, Venezuela’s second-largest city. He ran against Chavez for the presidency in 2006, but Chavez handily defeated him.
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